AS PART OF THE SCENOFEST COLABORATORS i KIND OF MADE A PAUSE ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS ON EACH EVENT THAT I POSSIBLY CAN AND ENTER MYSELF IN A VERY EXQUISIT WORKSHOP. i REALLY WAS A LITTLE SCEPTICAL ABOUT SOME WORKSHOPS. i’VE HAD TALKED WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE QUALITY OF IT, AND MOST OF THEM WERE REALLY DISSAPOINTED. BUT I TOOK MY CHANCES ANYWAY AND JOINED THE TEA PAVILLION. MY FIRST SURPRISE , WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS EXPECTING IT, WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF KUROTANI MIYAKO PUPPETEER, MASTER OF PRESICION, SO SIMPLE AND GREAT CHOW WITH A PUPPET. SIMPLE, PRECISE, THEY DONNT LEAVE CHANCE DECIDE FOR THEM ON THEIR PERFORMANCE. THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF USING WHITE COLOR ON THE SET OR ON THEIR CLOTHES. AMAZING.

AFTER THAT, WHAT REALLY TOOK ME OVER THE SKIES WAS THAT SHE WAS GIVING THE WORKSHOP , BUT INVITING EACH ONE OF US TO A TEE CEREMONY. JAPANEESE STYLE OF COURSE. THAT MADE IT GREAT BECAUSE RITUALISM WAS IN THE TEE, YOU COULD FEEL SACRED INSIDE YOU. THAT GAVE US THE OPORTUNITY TO START wORKING IN A PUPPET. ELEVEN OF US WHERE MAKING A PART OF THE PUPPET, WHILE THE MASTERS MADE THE TECHNICALL STUFF, THE PLANS, CREATING THE SHAPE OF THE HEAD, IN A WHITE PAPER, IT LOOKED LIKE FRANKESTEIN LABORATORY. . DURING THE WORKSHOP WE EXPERIENCED DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT PUPPETRY, WE HAD TECHNICS ON HOW TO HANDLE A PUPPET AGAIN, JAPANEESE WAY, MR. MIAGUI STYLE (SEE KARATE KID).DURING THE WORKSHOP THERE WHERE A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN TWO PUPPET MASTERS, ONE PRAG STYLE, THE OTHER TOKIO STYLE, THERER WHERE DISCUSSING ABOUT THE COSTUME OF THE PUPPET, IT WAS AN ACTUAL FIGHT , AND THE WORKSHOP SPACE SUDDENLY BECAME A RING, SO I REALLY IMAGINE THE PUPPETMASTERS FIGHTING TO SEE WHO MADE THE BEST PUPPET. MAN, THAT WAS GREAT.

SO AT THE END WE MANAGED TO PERFORM A REALLY BAD PERFORMANCE WITH THE PUPET, BUT WE DIDN’T CARE MUCH ABOUT IT, HAVING SAKE AT THE END OF A WORKSHOP MAKES THINGS EASIER.